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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9772353" data-attributes="member: 6790260">As noted above: It would be like asking a flautist to separate right hand movements and breathing, and practice only those skills, and then, separately and five minutes delayed, practice left hand movements and embouchure. Like...that's theoretically a thing they could physically do...but it would be completely pointless to do so. You cannot do the action of playing a flute without doing all four things at once. Does that somehow make playing the flute more powerful as an instrument than playing the xylophone, where breathing is irrelevant? Does it make the flute somehow worse than the oboe, where (if you want to get anywhere with it, anyway) you have to add the skill of carving your own reeds?The answer is of course "No, absolutely not!" Each instrument brings different characteristics, and the timbre and overtone series for each matters a great deal. (Oboe, for example, is often used for tuning the rest of the orchestra, due to coincidental characteristics and the fact that, mathematically speaking, it is a different kind of structure compared to most wind instruments, being equivalent to a tube closed at one end, rather than a tube open at both ends.)</blockquote>